Re:The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)
by krasin on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:45AM
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> It was used in the abandoned PNaCL project.
I worked on PNaCl back in 2011. There was a growing understanding that choosing LLVM IR as the representation was a mistake. I even tried to come up with something better, but failed to do so. I was glad to see asm.js and then WebAssembly coming to the scene. In my opinion, WebAssembly is better than what PNaCl could have ever become.
I worked on PNaCl back in 2011. There was a growing understanding that choosing LLVM IR as the representation was a mistake. I even tried to come up with something better, but failed to do so. I was glad to see asm.js and then WebAssembly coming to the scene. In my opinion, WebAssembly is better than what PNaCl could have ever become.
update: and then there was a famous post, "LLVM IR is a compiler IR": https://groups.google.com/g/llvm-dev/c/N3r_a1Vbrog/m/8lukw1x...